You know you’re a great mother when…

Flea: Mummy, what's good is that there's a new boy in our class and his birthday is the day after mine, so I'm not the youngest in my class any more.

Me: Oh, that's nice, isn't it.

Flea: Yes, Peter's birthday is on the 15th but mine is on the 14th. So I am one day older.

Me: No it's not, darling, yours is on the 15th. Your birthdays are the same, so you're the same age.

Flea: I thought my birthday was on the 14th! Silly me.

Me: Nope. Sorry. It's the 15th.

Flea [sounding very unsure]: That's strange. Because on my blanket from when I was a baby, it says one-four…

Me: Does it? Really? Um…

I'll now take bets on which person in this conversation turned out to be RIGHT, and which person turned out to be a TERRIBLE MOTHER. This may be worse than the incident where I pointed to Flea in her school photograph and asked, "Who's that little girl there?"

Sally is a full-time blogger and founder of the Tots100, Trips100, Foodies100 and HIBS100 communities, along with the MAD Blog Awards. She spends a bit too much time on the Internet. She’s also a very happy Mum to Flea, the world’s coolest ten year old.

Roaring with laughter!!! Like my whole family has rushed to see what’s so funny… and nobody laughed!!! Not one of my kids thinks this is funny!!! Because I totally have no idea of exactly which day their birthdays are on. A very common conversation in our house sounds like this: “…Well isn’t it lucky your birthday is on a Saturday this year, or is it the Sunday…or maybe even the Friday ..is it the ninth or is it the tenth…” I tend to then dwindle off into silence as there is very little response to my scrabbling around for birth dates, no response at all in fact. Hmmm… sometimes the silence is simply shouting at me!!

I have been known to make my daughter a whole year younger on forms by getting her birth year wrong (I still swear I lost a year when she was born!).
I can only get her birthday right because she very considerately chose to arrive on the 10th day of the 10th month, and I can’t get those muddled up 🙂